How often is the person with the idea and the vision the guy with the business smarts to capitalize on it? How often does a company with excellent execution thirst for the next big idea? A marketplace for ideas and innovation is possibly the solution to this.
Same thing with science. There are a lot of brilliant scientists who spend their time researching really trivial stuff because they can't think of anything better. And at the same time, there are a lot of people with great ideas of research projects who don't have the PhD. What if we created a system like Wikipedia, but instead of holding the sum of all human knowledge it held the sum of all human ignorance? I.e., people could post questions on topics that science could answer but hasn't yet.
True, although for me at least XP doesn't induce any state of calm or flow. I find both the color scheme and the animations in XP to be extremely grating. XP feels like being in the doctor's office and lying on the metal table under very harsh lighting.
OS X has loads of eye candy. The obvious benefit is that users get more feedback on their actions. This means less calls to tech support, because it is obvious to the user whether they are taking the right actions or not. For example, when a program crashes in OS X there is a spinning beachball, and when a program launches the dock icon bounces.
The hidden benefit is that much of the eye candy in OS X is very soothing. It makes it easier to get work done when you have a soothing background and your actions on the computer generate a continual calming effect. Everything from the click of the keys on my powerbook to the way programs open and close is designed to put the user into a state of flow.
And the reason the air is cleaner today is because of the Clean Air act of 1990, which uses the same emissions trading structure as the Kyoto protocol.
I'm all for private ventures going into space, but you're quite delusional if you expect there to be any large scale investment in global warming research by the private sector.
That's because if you invent a new spaceship you can make lots of money, but if you invent a new device to clean the air you can't make a dime, even though there is clear value in it. All you have to do is change this problem with the economy and suddenly the air will start getting a whole lot cleaner. That was the point of the Kyoto protocol.
Between comments under my real name and comments under various easily tracable screen names, there are well over 2,000 posts that Google turns up for me. There is tons of stuff in there that is somewhat embarrassing, though not terrible. But I think any employer who holes up for a week to read everything I ever wrote in sixth grade is going to have much bigger issues than me.
The government cherrypicks which articles they want to release, and then uses them to create a positive image of the war. The only thing being open sourced here is their propaganda machine. Based on Bush's past nominations, I'm guessing Armstrong Williams is going to be the head of this department.
Right, but the reason hedge funds got so popular recently is because they were deregulated so that they can invest in basically anything. Where once they were designed to provide a stable return on investment no matter how the economy was doing, they are now one of the riskiest things out there (if you want them to be). So when you invest in hedge funds, a lot of the times that money is going into venture funds.
Frankly, I think the most significant thing undergraduate degrees teach people in preparing to enter nearly any field is how to deal with a hostile, overbearing, inefficient bureaucracy infested with sadistically egotistical ladder-climbing prats and their gaggles of sniveling sycophants.
As I've said (and been modded down for) before, paying your dues and working your way up the ladder is for suckers.
A century ago people basically lived in one place their entire lives. Anyone could vouch for you so you didn't need a degree to get a job. Then with the rise of transportation, our new mobility outstripped our identity technology. Thus colleges stepped up as the new middleman to vouch for people. Basically, we regressed from networks back to hierarchies (networks are the most advanced form of social organization).
But now with the Internet we are basically all connected, so it's basically like living in the same little village for your entire life. Especially since a record of what you say and do is kept on your home page, so you don't really need a third party to vouch for you. I can send off an email to the CEO of almost any company I'd ever want to talk to or work for.
Also, the fact that as credentialism replaced learning as the reason why most kids go to college, the quality of education greatly suffered. Now it's way more efficient to just sit in a library and read books than it is to go to lectures. I learn more reading a book or two that I did from most of my classes at Cornell, especially since colleges use extremely low quality textbooks most of the time. Some of the textbooks they used at Cornell had advertising in them! Which wouldn't have pissed me off nearly as much if they weren't not only completely useless, but also filled with scores of blatant errors.
Right now we are going through another bubble I think with venture capital. Too many stupid ideas are getting funded. It pains me to see these new Ajax sites launched every day and to spend five seconds looking at them and know they have no chance of ever succeeding. At least they fail cheaply.
I think the bottleneck right now is much more on the creativity and business side than it is on the hardware/software side. If you want to be a tech entrepreneur than learn business skills, you can always find someone to help you with hardware and software. Of course you need to understand what is possible, be able to tell the difference between a good and bad programmer, etc.
Maybe we should ask the Waltons how they feel about exploiting US Taxpayers?
From what I've heard the Waltons are very humble, and even though they are each worth 20 billion they mostly live off the types of products sold in their stores. Of course they do so by choice, and the average Walmart employee does not.
Except back in 2001, the iPod's introduction was a tiny little thing: a Mac-only MP3 player, albiet with the typical Apple attention to detail and design. No one expected much.
Maybe that's because the first version of the iPod was a piece of crap. It was thick and ugly and felt awkward in the hands. Maybe that's why they only sold 40,000 of them, IIRC. The iPod really didn't hit it's stride until the 3rd generation which was over a year later. At the time of the original launch I owned a Rio 500 and would have never upgraded to an iPod over a Nomad or the like.
What is amazing is how close they were though. It just goes to show that close only counts in horseshows and hand grenades.
Yeah, I watched that video the other day when he blogged it. His books are good too, so far I have read three of them. My philosophy is definitely very influenced by his works.
I own an iPod, before that I owned a Rio 500 which is widely considered the first "good" mp3 player ever made. This was before the Nomad came out, which was considered the best until the iPod. Right now if I were going to buy one I'd go for the Archos since it functions as a DVR. You hook it up to your TV like a Tivo and tell it what shows to record, and then you pick it up before you leave the house and you can watch whatever you want. That is way ahead of where the iPod is, and while iPod has recently started supporting video the Archos has supported video for years.
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I work for someone who makes unmanned drones for a living.
So I am really getting a kick out of most of these replies.
Some of you guys are very good at making it sound like you know what you are talking about.
But trust me.... You don't.
I think you just want to make yourself sound smart, when in reality you dont know what you are talking about.
This is how bad info gets passed around.
If you dont know about the topic....Dont make yourself sound like you do.
Cuz some Slashdotters belive anything they hear
Beijing 2008 here I come!
I'll bet you anything that the evidence for our next war comes from citizens translating these documents.
How often is the person with the idea and the vision the guy with the business smarts to capitalize on it? How often does a company with excellent execution thirst for the next big idea? A marketplace for ideas and innovation is possibly the solution to this.
Same thing with science. There are a lot of brilliant scientists who spend their time researching really trivial stuff because they can't think of anything better. And at the same time, there are a lot of people with great ideas of research projects who don't have the PhD. What if we created a system like Wikipedia, but instead of holding the sum of all human knowledge it held the sum of all human ignorance? I.e., people could post questions on topics that science could answer but hasn't yet.
True, although for me at least XP doesn't induce any state of calm or flow. I find both the color scheme and the animations in XP to be extremely grating. XP feels like being in the doctor's office and lying on the metal table under very harsh lighting.
OS X has loads of eye candy. The obvious benefit is that users get more feedback on their actions. This means less calls to tech support, because it is obvious to the user whether they are taking the right actions or not. For example, when a program crashes in OS X there is a spinning beachball, and when a program launches the dock icon bounces.
The hidden benefit is that much of the eye candy in OS X is very soothing. It makes it easier to get work done when you have a soothing background and your actions on the computer generate a continual calming effect. Everything from the click of the keys on my powerbook to the way programs open and close is designed to put the user into a state of flow.
Now if only marriage would come with a God Mode.
Porns Tips Guzzardo!
I consider my community to be the Internet, and as far as I can tell nothing is obscene here.
And the reason the air is cleaner today is because of the Clean Air act of 1990, which uses the same emissions trading structure as the Kyoto protocol.
I'm all for private ventures going into space, but you're quite delusional if you expect there to be any large scale investment in global warming research by the private sector.
That's because if you invent a new spaceship you can make lots of money, but if you invent a new device to clean the air you can't make a dime, even though there is clear value in it. All you have to do is change this problem with the economy and suddenly the air will start getting a whole lot cleaner. That was the point of the Kyoto protocol.
Between comments under my real name and comments under various easily tracable screen names, there are well over 2,000 posts that Google turns up for me. There is tons of stuff in there that is somewhat embarrassing, though not terrible. But I think any employer who holes up for a week to read everything I ever wrote in sixth grade is going to have much bigger issues than me.
I wish. More like:
"I love America -- Anonymous Sunni"
"I love America -- Iran"
The government cherrypicks which articles they want to release, and then uses them to create a positive image of the war. The only thing being open sourced here is their propaganda machine. Based on Bush's past nominations, I'm guessing Armstrong Williams is going to be the head of this department.
Right, but the reason hedge funds got so popular recently is because they were deregulated so that they can invest in basically anything. Where once they were designed to provide a stable return on investment no matter how the economy was doing, they are now one of the riskiest things out there (if you want them to be). So when you invest in hedge funds, a lot of the times that money is going into venture funds.
Oh shit I'm going to have to switch back now! Do you have any idea how long it took to get IE running on Linux?
Frankly, I think the most significant thing undergraduate degrees teach people in preparing to enter nearly any field is how to deal with a hostile, overbearing, inefficient bureaucracy infested with sadistically egotistical ladder-climbing prats and their gaggles of sniveling sycophants.
As I've said (and been modded down for) before, paying your dues and working your way up the ladder is for suckers.
As the old saying goes, you aren't a real venture capitalist until you lose your first 20 million.
A century ago people basically lived in one place their entire lives. Anyone could vouch for you so you didn't need a degree to get a job. Then with the rise of transportation, our new mobility outstripped our identity technology. Thus colleges stepped up as the new middleman to vouch for people. Basically, we regressed from networks back to hierarchies (networks are the most advanced form of social organization).
But now with the Internet we are basically all connected, so it's basically like living in the same little village for your entire life. Especially since a record of what you say and do is kept on your home page, so you don't really need a third party to vouch for you. I can send off an email to the CEO of almost any company I'd ever want to talk to or work for.
Also, the fact that as credentialism replaced learning as the reason why most kids go to college, the quality of education greatly suffered. Now it's way more efficient to just sit in a library and read books than it is to go to lectures. I learn more reading a book or two that I did from most of my classes at Cornell, especially since colleges use extremely low quality textbooks most of the time. Some of the textbooks they used at Cornell had advertising in them! Which wouldn't have pissed me off nearly as much if they weren't not only completely useless, but also filled with scores of blatant errors.
Right now we are going through another bubble I think with venture capital. Too many stupid ideas are getting funded. It pains me to see these new Ajax sites launched every day and to spend five seconds looking at them and know they have no chance of ever succeeding. At least they fail cheaply.
I think the bottleneck right now is much more on the creativity and business side than it is on the hardware/software side. If you want to be a tech entrepreneur than learn business skills, you can always find someone to help you with hardware and software. Of course you need to understand what is possible, be able to tell the difference between a good and bad programmer, etc.
Don't forget that this country considers pregnancy to be a disease. (The CDC monitors that too)
Do any of the Waltons own a corporate jet?
Maybe we should ask the Waltons how they feel about exploiting US Taxpayers?
From what I've heard the Waltons are very humble, and even though they are each worth 20 billion they mostly live off the types of products sold in their stores. Of course they do so by choice, and the average Walmart employee does not.
Except back in 2001, the iPod's introduction was a tiny little thing: a Mac-only MP3 player, albiet with the typical Apple attention to detail and design. No one expected much.
Maybe that's because the first version of the iPod was a piece of crap. It was thick and ugly and felt awkward in the hands. Maybe that's why they only sold 40,000 of them, IIRC. The iPod really didn't hit it's stride until the 3rd generation which was over a year later. At the time of the original launch I owned a Rio 500 and would have never upgraded to an iPod over a Nomad or the like.
What is amazing is how close they were though. It just goes to show that close only counts in horseshows and hand grenades.
RMS is insane, but then again you don't win the MacArthur genius award without being insane. The most non-insane people are eligible for is a Nobel.
Yeah, I watched that video the other day when he blogged it. His books are good too, so far I have read three of them. My philosophy is definitely very influenced by his works.
I own an iPod, before that I owned a Rio 500 which is widely considered the first "good" mp3 player ever made. This was before the Nomad came out, which was considered the best until the iPod. Right now if I were going to buy one I'd go for the Archos since it functions as a DVR. You hook it up to your TV like a Tivo and tell it what shows to record, and then you pick it up before you leave the house and you can watch whatever you want. That is way ahead of where the iPod is, and while iPod has recently started supporting video the Archos has supported video for years.